SS 'ZARA' sunk 13th April 1917

The 'ZARA' was a 1,331-ton cargo-passenger ship that measured: 257.0 x 35.2. Wm. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow built and completed her as Yard No.130 in June 1897 for Bailey & Leetham, Ltd., Hull. In 1903 she was owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull. In 1917 the registered owner was Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull. She was torpedoed and sunk by SM U 30, on 13 April 1917, 90 miles W ¾ W from Hellisø Island (60.08N-01.52E), while voyaging from London to Trondhjem, with general cargo. 27 liives were lost. Eleven members of the crew and 11 passengers were killed. The remaining 17 crew members and 17 passengers set sail in lifeboats for the Norwegian coast. They managed to reach Norway, but five crew members died of exposure on the way there.